“As a result, the political “Right” has found itself unable to respond effectively to the pointed and pertinent question from “left-wing” adversaries: “So what’s your alternative?” With no comprehensive countervailing paradigmatic position to promote or defend, the “Right” found itself gradually forced to give way under the weight of this onerous question, and to adopt increasing portions of the failed formula it had rejected.”

The defence of Israel as the Jewish Homeland is also the war internationally against Islam, and it must also be the war against political elites in the world in general, especially a necessary war against the Vatican (bit not against the Christian or Catholic people who themselves are being betrayed by the Churches and the Vatican in their own struggle against Islam)

As if all that were not hard enough remember also that we live in a period of deepening crisis in the international capitalist system where the drive in the world is towards class dictatorship, morphing into Fascist states. The latter raises the issue, as it has always historically done, of growing Antisemitism. This Antisemitism has something new, a coalition of US Presidents, of anti-Marxist Fascistsm of Islam and all against Jews and Israel.

Sherman performs a useful role in pointing to the bankruptcy of “Right” as well as “Left” in Israel. He is aware that this absence of principled leadership poses the greatest dangers for Israel, for the Jews of Israel, as well as the Jews in the Diaspora, including in America who are losing their Jewishness, and are being absorbed into the forces of American Imperialism.

However Martin Sherman tries to fix the problem from within the Jewish ideology of Judaism (more or less) and he cannot go outside of the Jewish experience, towards Trotskyism.

Sherman with many others is correct in identifying the two factors, geographical and demographic, as being central issues.

Sherman proposes paying Arabs in Palestine who want to leave and create a future for themselves a notable grant which may well be appealing.

This however, ALTOUGH 4INTERNATIONAL DOES NOT OPPOSE IT, is a little bit of sidestepping of the issue.

The issue that needs to be hammered out inside the international movement including the international working class movement is:

Israel is the Homeland of the Jewish people

The issue raises the issue of nation, because the Jews have 4000 years of history as a nation, the longest in existence

This issue of nation runs into conflict with the demands of international capitalism in crisis, and its need for dictatorial central control, wrongly called sometimes “NEW” World Order. Not New…Hitler attempted the same.

The Palestinians are not a nation but a carefully manufactured concept of Antisemitism existing since roughly 1967. It is a meme becoming a law through repetition. That is the central thing that must be tackled head on.

The issue of nation also runs into conflict with modern day anti-Marxists because although there was a tendency to dismiss Nation (for obvious reasons) by the time of Leon Trotsky in the 1930s, the main socialist revolutionary leader of the times there was a serious reversal by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky came to stand for Jewish nation and for Ukrainian nation (and Nationhoods)

These are issues that are far more important than paying these “Palestinians” to find a home elsewhere. That is a tactic that CAN be used but it is only a tactic. The concept of the Jewish Homeland and Nation must be advanced far more as a priority. I notice that Sherman was given support by a character called “Curious American” who advances the Palestinian Fascist cause continually. That is the danger.

4international is also opposed to all concepts of A B or C including the hundreds of variations as advanced often by that centrist Jew Ted Belman. 4international says to Belman state your ground and fight for it.

Lay down the basis. The International People laid down the law in the early 1920s. Jordan is the Jewish Homeland, and still is. Certainly is Golan, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria, as well as Israel as it is today. All that was stolen from the Jews by World Antisemitism. Sinai was won in rightful struggle.

That is the position of 4international. THAT is the position that the centrist Ted Belman could never hold.

Towards that position we hold and along the way we are prepared to advance tactically. We may accept temporary compromise but on principles never veer from.

Only a Trotskyist Party can advance both tactically and strategically, both concepts which are in a unity and conflict of opposites. The conflict between the two have to be kept inside of the unity.

We are in a new period. We do not want to be messing around with bank balances. We want to advance a revolutionary and a strategic programme.

A/ Only Jews live in Israel. All others, that is non-Jewish, are there by invitation, they are guests and if they understand that they are guest they can be honoured guests.

B/ Israel is what was laid down by the International Peoples in 1920 as outlined above

C/ The struggle against Fascism, Racism, Antisemitism today is meaningless if the above concept of Israel is not fought for. That is what distinguishes 4international as revolutionaries today, and as being against anti-Marxist leftist pro-Fascists…

Did the Jewish leaders like Caroline Glick not know what to expect when Pope Francis came to Jerusalem. If Glick had any political sense then she would have known that nothing but trouble lay in store for the Jewish people who have always faced deep threat from the Vatican.

In our times there was only one Pope, Benedict, who confronted the reality of Islam and therefore Palestinianism, but following his famous address he withdrew and retreated from the Jihad, which was threatening not only himself Benedict but of course millions of Christians in Muslim countries. Reality of Islam.

Francis has never said one word against Islam. He thinks it is a religion of peace led astray by a few extremists. His Christians are being decimated and he talks like that all of the time.

Caroline Glick is a major problem for the Jewish people today. She presents Jews in Israel with the presence of at least 40 per cent Muslims. How could that work given what we see in Europe. Some special magic perhaps!

This is carried on in her position on everything, including this Pope visit.

In the following extract from her latest article she is actually saying that John Paul 2 that hated bigot and pro-Imperialist, was actually a friend of the Jews. At least that is what I read. Consider this:

His predecessor Pope John Paul II was less willing to confront Islamic violence. But his opposition to Communism made him respect Israel as freedom’s outpost in the Middle East. John Paul’s visit to Israel in 2000 was in some ways an historic gesture of friendship to the Jewish people of Israel.

Both Benedict and John Paul II were outspoken champions of the Second Vatican Council and maintained doctrinal allegiance to the Church’s rejection of anti-Judaism, including the charge of deicide, and its denunciation of replacement theology.

Alas, the Golden Age of Catholic-Jewish relations seems to have come to an end during Francis’s visit to the Promised Land this week.

“Opposition to communism” by John Paul 2 is what endears him to Glick.

And here we are back at this same issue for Jews which comes up time and time again. Why should Jews be proponents of capitalism and its advanced stage Imperialism?

Why tie Jews to that?

And more! In tying Jews to the hoodlum Anti-Communist John Paul 2, Glick is also tying Jews to the Argentine dictatorship, which as everybody knows was also a fight against “communism” and directed by the CIA, and is tying Jews to the actions of Pope Francis then head of the Jesuits in Argentina. Read this extract:

But for some Argentinians the pope pointedly remains Bergoglio rather than Francis. They still want to know what he did – or did not do – during Argentina’s Dirty War between the military dictatorship and its left-wing opponents during which the state murdered more than 10,000 people.

Such Argentinians include Estela de la Cuadra, whose family suffered more than most during the dictatorship: five of her family members were “disappeared”. Among those she never saw again were her husband, a brother-in-law and her sister Elena.

Elena was pregnant when she was snatched in February 1977. Her parents reached out to a family contact in Rome, the superior general of the Jesuits. He promised to help them and sent Elena’s father a letter of introduction to the head Jesuit in Argentina, 40-year-old Fr Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Ms de la Cuadra has the letter Fr Bergoglio wrote to a bishop in La Plata asking him to help the family. Eventually they received news: Elena was gone forever but had given birth to a daughter Ana before she was murdered. The baby had been adopted. “My parents were told there was nothing more that could be done,” says Ms de la Cuadra.

Illegal adoptions
What makes her cynical about the pope’s emergence as one of the world‘s leading moral voices is that in testimony he gave in 2010 to a court investigating the military’s crimes Bergoglio, by now archbishop of Buenos Aires, said he had become aware of the military’s illegal adoption of hundreds of children born to women it had disappeared only “10 years before”, correcting himself to say he had become aware of the campaign to recover the children during the first trials of the military leadership in 1985.

“It is a lie, because he met our family about this very issue during the dictatorship,” says Ms de la Cuadra, who says her father told Fr Bergoglio his daughter was pregnant.

In a 2011 signed statement Cardinal Bergoglio said he was not told the disappeared woman was pregnant. But even so his claim of ignorance about the plight of pregnant detainees is hard to reconcile with the role played in publicising the issue by Ms de la Cuadra’s mother and the other founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the group that campaigned for information about their missing loved ones…

It is obvious that Pope Francis was in deep with the Fascist dictatorship and according to good Argentine people a liar as well.

This is the man who the Jewish leaders of Israel invited into Israel last weekend

And Glick is covering for his communist hatred and the role he played in the Fascist Dictatorship of Argentine. At least 10,000 women, workers, trade unionists, youth perished at the hand of the dictatorship AND Pope Francis.

Why could Israeli leaders not have said until we investigate further your role in the Argentine Fascist dictatorship in Argentine you Pope Francis is simply NOT welcome in the land of the Jews, Israel.

The issue in the world today is very simply Antisemitism. It is Antisemitism which separates all political tendencies.

The Vatican is very much a political tendency. It is clearly a political organisation. Pope John Paul in his visits to Poland and elsewhere was deeply involved in bringing down the whole system of Soviet Russia. You may agree or disagree with that. What you cannot deny is that he was a political operator.

What has that though to do with Antisemitism? Surely the Vatican is not Antisemitic.

Well the Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape to places like South America, even putting them up in the Vatican, prior to secret embarkation.

Now Pope Francis is on Monday going to visit the “Palestinians” and call for them to have a state. This is even though Francis knows very well that the recent poll shows that Antisemitism is rife in the Palestinians.

“The most anti-Semitic countries and territories were led by the West Bank and Gaza, where 93 percent of the adult population holds anti-Semitic views”…

Hanging over the Jewish people is 6 million of their people murdered by the Nazis…that is murdered by Antisemitism

The uniqueness of the Jews rests especially on the Jews being the longest nation of mankind…some 4000 years AND of the uniqueness of Antisemitism as a special hatred among men

Those two factors place a great challenge on leadership today

It must be said that right across the board (speaking of Israeli leadership) that challenge is not being met and I predict will not be met by present leaders.

The present leaders remind me of the driver of a badly damaged Grand prix car, where the driver tries to steer but every jerk of a reluctant steering wheel sends a judder through the whole car (Israeli public) and amid s`pectator gasps causes a further tremor. Such can be said of the latest proposal of Bennett who seems to be an advocate of the discredited theory that if you make your enemy (Palestinians) comfortable in life then they will respond by “liking” you in nirvana friendship never-ending. Sadly that is not so. Antisemitism trumps that. Similarly the proposals by Martin Sherman based on paying Palestinians to make a new life for themselves elsewhere aided by financial grants and other help falls into the same trap. Antisemitism is likely to trump Sherman as well as Bennett.

It is all about leadership as far as Jews are concerned, as far as Irish are concerned, as far as ANYBODY is concerned. THAT is the central issue. So it is well to look closely at existing Israeli leaders right across the board. There is need for clarity. In this there are no “friends”! There are indeed colleagues in struggle, brothers in struggle. But there must be open discussion. Give a man a post in a bourgeois government (Bennett) and he stops communicating and be becomes a “prophet”!!! So there needs to be fair discussion where the discussion is carried on with a lot of that elusive quality “FAIRNESS”.

Proposed a humanitarian solution to the Palestinians. Why not! We wish no living being ill man or animal and I would say especially our dumb and totally dependent cousins! But wait…let us also have some principles BECAUSE The Palestinians cannot have a lucky or fortunate future under any circumstances or under any way of thinking if they remain Antisemitic, The Palestinians must break from Antisemitism. That involves the Palestinians understanding their own history. The Palestinians must find a concrete way forward but based on that. Bennett says make them prosperous, as Scarlett Johannson that gorgeous creature thinks also, and they will forget all about ideology of Antisemitism, but ideologies do not work like that and the prosperous Palestinian will become more envious and more Antisemitic not less!!!

THE GENERAL SITUATION

Figures show that Antisemitism is deepest among the Arabs. This is a combination of ethnic hatred of Arabs towards Jews, and the hatred promoted by Islam towards Jews

The first step, the very first step, is for the Palestinians to break free from Antisemitism. Jews are never responsable for Antisemitism. Until then Jews simply must defend themselves by all means against Antisemitism…everlasting position of Trotskyist 4international

The Jewish people by still being around after such persecutions and setbacks in 4000 long years of history shows that they will always fight for a future. The problem today is that there are conflicting ideologies as to what Jews should do

CONFLICTING IDEOLOGIES

Some immediate conflicting ideologies

Paul Erlinger says that the US acting on this Antisemitism of the Arabs is not significant. I wonder where he has been living as Obama and Kerry preceded by Bush and Condi have stoked it up

The religious paralysers…they say we have existed with the help of God for 4000 years what can destroy us today…forgetting that the Jews were saved not by God but by the Red Army, for all the thanks that the Russian lads and girls got for defeating Hitler. The religious folk of Israel create a diversion which you must reject because the religious folk do not provide an answer in the real world (of today)

The Palestinian loving Jews in Israel which is a widish sward. They all have one thing in common…they do not like Jews and they just love Arabs and seek at every turn to be friends with Arabs. They are dangerous and Steven Plaut often rightly attacks them as such. They blame Israel. They omit history. They live in their own heads. These are in general various leftist Anti-Marxists, various Stalinists as in the Israeli Communist Party, Peace Now idiots, Labourists and renegades from Likud like Livni. Sharon was also a renegade. In general they have the same political philosophy as the German Jews who would or could not fight Hitler, and in the end were forced to try to collaborate with the Nazis. They died anyway. Sometimes no compromise is possible

Extreme anti-socialist leaders like Steven Plaut. Plaut falsifies the history of socialism and is a falsifier no more need be said. There are very many bloggers in this category

Patriotic Jews with good and factual analyses. They understand the truth. Yet they are caught in the trap of individualism. An individual cannot change history in the sense we are talking about here.

The Israeli military..the leadership is politically stupid, totally obtuse, having not understood anything in the past 10 years…Yugoslavia, Mubarak, Gadhafi, Ukraine and of course Assad. In general their obtuseness leads to paralysis. The IDF soldiers are patriotic and intelligent but they are led by political careerist mostly fools and tied to military discipline are a threat to the Jews in the longest run, but in the short term the Jewish people have no other defence

The Israeli people…They were mobilising strongly against the Sharon Gaza withdrawal…but without a party to lead the growing revolt of the masses of Israelis was sold out by the Rabbis of the Settler Movement. The individualist activists were powerless and the youth were betrayed.

All of this spells up to a crisis of leadership.

How to resolve that issue of leadership is a BIG issue. Let us discuss the mechanism.

I am not saying here that Iran today is Germany 1933. But yesterday we said that if Iran had the nuclear bomb then it would use it against the millions of Jews in Israel.

I base this thought which is a thought of scientific truth because when you study Antisemitism there is no limits to it. When the Nazis were clearly defeated in 1944/45, and THEY KNEW they were defeated, the hatred of Antisemitism carried them on and they INTENSIFIED the Holocaust of the Jews. It was because of this TRUTH that Anne Frank and her sister lost their lives at the end.

So think on this…If the Antisemitism of Iran has the Nuclear Bomb then it will use it against Jews.

Bush held Israel back from destroying the Iranian Bomb. Obama carried this forward but in a more obvious way.

The agreement that Obama talked about, or the possibility of an agreement, was always a lie and Obama knew that. The reasons behind his and Bush’s thinking do not matter. What matters is the results.

Iran has thrown up new roadblocks to reaching a deal with the P5+1 world powers over its illicit nuclear program.

* Three days of negotiations in the fourth round of Geneva discussions ended Friday in arguments and confrontations when the Iranian team presented their country’s new “red lines,” diminishing any hope by the Obama administration to claim victory in its approach to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, according to reports from Iran. Hossein Shariatmadari, a former torturer and now managing editor of the conservative newspaper Keyhan, the mouthpiece of the country’s supreme leader, in an Op-Ed published Saturday revealed details of the Geneva negotiations and congratulated the Iranian delegation for its steadfast demand that the country has a right to pursue nuclear development.

* The Obama administration hoped (DID HE REALLY?) that with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif showing an eagerness to solve the nuclear issue and address the West’s concerns, there would be a possibility for a negotiated solution. An interim agreement penned last November in Geneva was touted as a “historic nuclear deal.” Under that agreement, Iran — in return for billions of dollars in sanctions relief — limited its enrichment activity to the 5 percent level with a current stockpile of over 10 tons (enough for six nuclear bombs), converted much of its 20 percent enriched stock to harmless oxide and agreed to allow more intrusive inspections of its nuclear plants by the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose inspections were limited to only agreed-on facilities. The final draft of the agreement to address all of Iran’s nuclear facilities and activities, along with its missile program, was planned to be finalized this July. “The Obama administration and its allies were drunken happy after the initial agreement,” said Shariatmadari, who had previously criticized the Iranian negotiating officials for being soft with their Western counterparts. “With this delusion, that with the continuation of negotiations they could wrap up the issue, they had come prepared to Geneva with their demeaning requests of security ‘breakout’ or preventive measures of (possible military dimensions). … To present these conditions as their winning cards on the negotiating table, they could not imagine in their wildest dreams that this time the Iranian negotiators on the other side of the table … were aware of the opponents’ tricks.” The red lines that the Iranian delegation presented, as stated by Shariatmadari, are: • The expansion of Iranian nuclear research and development. • The acceptance of Iran’s need for enrichment on a level that feeds the need of the country (the country has over 19,000 centrifuges, far more than is needed for peaceful nuclear purposes, and would like to expand). • The preservation of the Arak heavy-water plant (the plant once operational could produce plutonium and serve the ruling clerics with a second path to nuclear weapons). • No interference or limitation to the country’s military and defensive measures (the Islamic regime is under U.N. sanctions for developing ballistic missiles and it currently holds the largest missile stockpile in the Middle East with ranges capable of reaching as far as Europe). • The removal of all sanctions at once as opposed to step-by-step relief (the U.N. resolutions and sanctions in place are the results of efforts by several U.S. administrations and over a decade of negotiations). “These (red) lines, which the enemy had never expected to see, at first caused their disbelief and then their anger to the level of shouts and arguments,” Shariatmadari wrote. “The opponents thought that the conditions set by the Iranian delegates were meant to increase (Iran’s) negotiating power, but when faced with their absolute resolve … they realized that their dreams were swept away and that the Geneva 4meeting had failed.” According to a source within the regime’s intelligence community, the leadership will not give up its nuclear ambitions, and the Revolutionary Guards see themselves as the dominating power in the Middle East and beyond. They believe that the Obama administration will not engage militarily and that the regime needs to weather the sanctions regime, which has already cracked due to the initial Geneva agreement. – See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/05/obama-outmaneuvered-iran-deal.html/#sthash.wNcoInJy.dpuf

CONCLUSION BY 4INTERNATIONAL

there comes a time when defence means action.

Israel runs out of time on this score. The situation is this. If I have to concrete over my front garden because i cannot stand the weeds. I use one cement mixer and it takes me a week. Or I use 100 cement mixers and it takes me 20 minutes. It all now depends on the number of accelerators that Iran has available to change 5 per cent to 10, then to 20, then to 40, then to 80 and THEY ARE THERE.

Thus a lie was sold to the whole world on this, and especially to Jews, but such a war by Iran will effect the whole world.

One thing that Marx and Lenin/león Trotsky did not do…they did not lie. They were above all revealers of underlying truths and they were researchers. You may not like marxism but grant them that.

However the anti-Marxist leftists of today DO NOT STAND IN THAT TRADITION. That is the problem of leadership that we keep on referring to on 4international

When you talk about the crisis of Iran Nuclear Threat then really you talk about everything, first and foremost how the Holocaust happened, who was responsible?

Immediate problem! Sadly to answer this requires a book or books!

But it was connected with these factors:

Capitalist society could not bring mankind forward. It reached kind of dead end in the Germany of the 20s and 30s

Nazism emerged out of what? This is the subject for endless debate, each debater with their own agenda. But for my money and to simplify it emerged out of (1)

This is clear 1. Nazis were directly responsible 2. Islam was directly responsible through Hajj Amin el Hussein not one individual mark you, but the representative of Islam 3. The Christians sadly were responsible 4. All the western governments interlinked with Christianity were responsible 5. The Catholics through the Vatican were very directly involved 6. The US becoming the World Leader of Capitalism used the Nazis post 1945 7. Leading US Company IBM made the Holocaust possible 8. The crisis of leadership in the left, in the 1930s Stalin was liquidating in Russia, Spain, France and America/Mexico all of the socialist leaders, thus the concept of Stalinism has to be learned of by a new generation

Now this is the key consideration and it is a terrible conclusion…All of the above are present in the present continual attacks being made on Israel

Read the following now and ask yourself if the US is directly involved in setting Israel up for another Holocaust taking a different form, the form of attack in Israel from Nuclear bombing?

Where today is the party which can take this issue and go into the ordinary people of America and hammer out by every possible means the implications of this action by the US Government in front of those ordinary American people?

And what kind of party will it be? Will it be some kind of socialist party based on principle or will it be some kind of capitalist minded party based also on devotion to the Jewish Israeli people?

At this point all I can say is that no such party exists.

I believe that the capitalist crisis of 1929 onwards produced the conditions for Hitler to build his movement so I do not go the capitalist road today.

I do hope for a new socialist leadership but that will be far from easy

More than one-in-four adults, 26 percent of those surveyed, are deeply infected with anti-Semitic attitudes

To what does that refer? To Arabs who have for 2000 years hated Jews as part of Islamic culture?

No, this is the point. This figure refers to the whole world and is the figure produced by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) as in “NEW YORK, May 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released the results of an unprecedented worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes. The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism surveyed 53,100 adults in 102 countries and territories in an effort to establish, for the first time, a comprehensive data-based research survey of the level and intensity of anti-Jewish sentiment across the world”.

As gold relates to capitalism and is the fall back money in periods of crisis so Antisemitism is the fall back position of humanity in a period of class crisis.

I do not think that the Jews I know have internalised this because the starting point for so many nation minded people (which I support that is I support nation hood) is to dny class and class issues never mind the overall class structure of society.

As life gets ugly under capitalist crisis conditions (youth in Spain 70 per cent unemployment with no perspective of Spanish capitalism resurrecting itself) the fall back position is always ugly.

There is no leadership at all among the Spanish youth to educate them about history…I emphasise NONE, that is NO LEADERSHIP

Let me establish a few truths. In general Jewish people cannot face up to reality. The reality of their history is just too painful (visit again Levin The Oslo Syndrome)

None did! Ben Gurion did not prepare at all for 1948. Begin became dispirited with the death of his wife. Sharon Mon Dieu! Netanyahu seeks comfort of a silly woman!

There is nothing today. The Knesset type of politics is paralysed and is paralysing the Jews. The religious Jewish answer heads in the direction of imposing a dictatorship not over the Arabs but over the Jews, that is over the Jewish mind, but the Jews were great because their minds were free.

This is the problem. Jews are paralysed. The alcoholic must first accept that he is before he can change. In that regard Jews must accept that they are paralysed totally before heading for a solution.

TO SUM UP

There needs to be a new type of party and leadership. Everything needs to be questioned. I would rule out ANY PERSON who is stupid enough to use in their language this Israeli left and Israeli right terminology. It means nothing and is abusive towards historical understanding.

How did Jews perish in the Nazi Holocaust? How did it happen? How did Hitler seize the power? Who did Hitler first place in concentration camps and was it the Jews? Why did Islam and the Nazis morph in those years.

Or I will put this in a different form. There must be no mental block placed that will stop us learning about these things.